Issue #187 | 20 April 2012

Looking ahead to Rio+20, the panel and audience at the Organization of American States (OAS) Dialogue on energy and climate change discussed key priorities for the LAC region for the next two decades. More.

Jose Miguel Insulza Salinas, Secretary General of the Organization of American States

19 April 2012: Delegates at the second session of the plenary meeting on an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), which is meeting in Panama City, Panama, are discussing, inter alia: work programme of the platform; functions and structures of bodies that might be established under the platform; rules and procedures; physical location of the platform's secretariat; host institution or institutions; budget; and legal issues relating to the establishment and operationalization of the platform. More.